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23/01/201825/01/2018

Valentines Day Menu 2018

Our Valentines Day Menu 2018 is now available to view and book! We will be running this menu from the 10th until the 16th of February 2018

You can view the menu here

Our menu comprises great local seasonal produce from fantastic suppliers!

Valentines Day Menu 2018

Canapes

Roasted peach

Parma ham, goats cheese and honey brushetta

Asparagus and roasted red pepper

With whipped feta on a rye crisp

Smoked salmon

In cheddar cups with avocado mousse

Halloumi

With caper, chilli and citrus dressing

Starters

Roasted beetroot salad

With blue cheese, hazelnuts, endive and rocket

Scallops

With serrano ham and a pea and parsley sauce

Tomato gazpacho

Sharer for two Herbed whole baked camembert drizzled with rapeseed oil served with bread croutes and dressed rocket pomegranate and walnut salad

crab

avocado, watermelon, cucumber, lovage

Mains

Duck breast

Thyme roasted carrots and dauphinoise potatoes with red wine sauce

Crispy pork belly

with pomme anna, celeriac remoulade, apple puree and a cider sauce

Wild mushroom risotto

With parmesan and pea shoots, served with ciabatta drizzled with olive oil

Crab

macaroni cheese with garlic and rosemary focaccia and watercress salad

Rack of lamb

with black pudding, pea veloute, glazed carrots and spring vegetables and watercress

Desserts

White chocolate and strawberry torte

with clotted cream and strawberry coulis

Chocolate tart with raspberry and meringue

Fig tart

with a dulce de leche cream

Raspberry, rosemary and vanilla tart

with a rosewater syrup

Custard panna cotta

Rhubarb compote and shortbread crumb

Petit Fours

Raspberry and white chocolate blondie

Earl grey and dark chocolate truffle

Salted caramel fudge

White chocolate, rose and raspberry lollipop

Price: Per person

3 courses £48

4 courses £54

5 courses £60

Please inform us of any dietary requirements, allergies or intolerances and we can adjust the menu to suit your needs

12/01/201825/01/2018

We are delighted to be featured on the Lizzie Somerset Blog in the Selected section. Lizzie Somerset is a Travel and lifestyle blog based in Somerset and celebrating everything in the area. Lizzie Somerset is a family lifestyle blog well known for honest and warm features of high quality; with a strong emphasis on Somerset and celebrating our achievements.

The Selected section of her blog is a Question and Answer interview with Somerset business owners and entrepreneurs highlighting stories in the area.

Lizzie Somerset Blog

Find the Lizzie Somerset Blog Post here

To book your evening with us please contact us

we are a personal chef, caterer, private chef service covering Somerset Dorset and East Devon. This includes Weymouth, Dorchester, Bridport, Lyme Regis, Exeter, Beer, Yeovil, Taunton, Bridgewater, Weston Super Mare, Crewkerne, If you can you would like to know if we cover your area then please contact us

We can provide catering for many different occasions, Birthday parties, hen parties, anniversaries, ladies nights, stag parties. Dinner party catering, baby showers, buffet, canapé parties.

07/01/201825/01/2018

Butlers in the Buff

Steve James is able to offer a Butlers in the Buff

Are you organising a hen party or a special event? Looking to surprise the hen or your guests! Why not add a Butler in the buff……..or two, to greet guests at the door. They can play party games with you and even make cocktails and pour your drinks. Most importantly they will serve your food! At previous parties they have handed round canapés and served your starter, main and dessert to the table. Before and during the meal they will serve and top up your drinks and then afterwards have even served petit fours with coffee. What more could you want with you delicious food than a hunky waiter in the buff to serve it to you!

Butlers in the Buff

The butlers are the perfect accompaniment to

Hen parties
Birthday parties
Ladies nights
Dinner parties
Baby showers

The butlers are not just available for ladies events they can also help with mixed and same sex/gay events

Same sex/gay stag/hen parties
gay/Same sex dinner parties
Same sex/gay weddings
gay/Same sex anniversaries
same sex/gay birthday parties

And Butlers In The Buff UK has been approved by Pink Weddings the the UK’s first gay wedding company you can find here

We can now offer this with our company and an exclusive menu to Butlers in the Buff Uk and will be released soon so keep watching!

To organise your party please contact us. Email steve@stevejamesltd.com or call 07909651557 and we will be happy to help!

We cover Somerset, Dorset and East Devon. Weymouth, Dorchester, Bridport, Taunton, Lyme Regis, Bridgewater and many other places! If you are unsure if we cover your area then please contact us! We can travel further but travel expenses would need to be covered please contact us to discuss your requirements!

05/11/201716/01/2018

Winter menu 2017

Our Winter menu 2017 is now online to view. This menu will be available from the beginning of December until the end of February 2018.

To view this menu please click here or view it below.

All of our menus are created using local seasonal produce. Please see our suppliers page to see the produce we are using. Steve James grows the majority of Fruit, vegetables and herbs in his own Somerset garden in Yeovil to ensure the freshest, organic produce. As well as the above menus Steve can create bespoke menu to suit your tastes. He will work with you discussing your requirements, likes and dislikes and then will create a menu suited to you. Steve James will work with you to produce a menu around your dietary requirements whether that be gluten, dairy, vegetarian, vegan, nut or any other.

Winter Menu 2017

Canapes

Beef ragu arancini

Squash and ricotta tartlets

Red onion, breaded goats cheese and walnut puffs

Sticky spiced pork belly

Starters

French onion soup with Dorset blue vinny rarebits

Butternut squash ravioli with sage butter and pine nuts

Mushroom and parmesan risotto

Game Terrine Sourdough croutes, mixed leaves in balsamic and rapeseed oil and onion jam

Mains

Beer braised pig cheeks with crispy potatoes, roasted shallots and thyme carrots

Vegetable crumble with nutmeg green beans and roast potatoes

Quick cooked flank steak with parsnip puree, mushroom pie and beef gravy

Duck Rossini pan fried and roasted duck breast with pate, creamed spinach, fondant potato and a red wine sauce

Steak and ale pie with pomme Anna, carrot puree, greens and an ale sauce

Desserts

Caramel panna cotta with triple chocolate brownie and sesame tuile

Brioche, white chocolate and orange bread and butter pudding with a cinnamon vanilla custard

Bitter chocolate and pistachio tart with clotted cream

blackberry and apple tarte tatin with vanilla cream

Petit Fours

Carrot and walnut cake

Orange polenta cake

Minted truffles

Spiced orange jellies

Price: Per person

3 courses £48

4 courses £54

5 courses £60

Please inform us of any dietary requirements, allergies or intolerances and we can adjust the menu to suit your needs

28/09/201716/01/2018

Winner Luxury Travel Guide 2018 award winning chef

We are excited to announce we are an award winning chef two years in a row for Luxury Travel Guide awards 2018 for dining experience of the year Yeovil! To book your evening with us please contact us

The Luxury Travel Awards recognise and celebrate excellence across all sectors of the affluent travel and tourism industry. Our team of experts have scoured the globe and travelled extensively in order to identify everything from the very best hotels, airlines and tour operators through to highlighting the most reputable transfer service companies.

We are a caterer and Personal chef service that covers Somerset and Dorset including Weymouth, Sherborne, Bruton, Bridport, Dorchester, Lyme Regis Weston Yeovil and Exeter. If you would like to know if we cover your area please get in touch and we would be happy to discuss this with you.

14/09/201716/01/2018

First Pop Up Restaurant

We thoroughly enjoyed our first pop up restaurant on the 1st September with Lesley Waters at Melbury Vale Vineyard in Shaftesbury.

We had a great evening cooking for our guests and enjoying the beautiful wines from Melbury Vale Winery and pairing them with the food we were serving

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tercress, cucumber and spring onion

hash

First pop up restaurant sweet potato banh mi personal chef caterer Dorset Shaftesbury Private chef Sweet potato steak banh mi with pickled slaw and coriander aioli First pop up restaurant Thai fish broth with stick rice and thai dukkah personal chef caterer Dorset Shaftesbury Private chef Thai fish broth with Vietnamese bass and sticky rice with basil salad and Thai dukkah

Keep an eye out for more upcoming dates and the release of our product range!

To book an evening with us please contact us

20/04/201716/01/2018

Yeovil Private chef

Easter Sunday I was a Yeovil Private chef. We had a great menu using local produce

Easter Sunday Menu

Yeovil Private chef

Starter:

Wild mushroom consommé

with sautéed mushrooms, confit shallots, parsley, mushroom floss and blue cheese rarebit

Main:

Moroccan spiced lamb loin and braised Moroccan lamb neck

with cumin roasted carrots, coriander, hummus, dukkah, cauliflower and spiced lamb sauce

Dessert:

Peach parfait with honey thyme roasted peaches, almonds, almond sponge, raspberries and lemon balm

If you would like to book your own private event please contact us

Yeovil private chef

We are a caterer and Personal chef service that covers Somerset and Dorset including Abbas Combe. Weymouth, Sherborne, Bruton, Bridport, Dorchester, Lyme Regis, Weston and Yeovil. If you would like to know if we cover your area please get in touch and we would be happy to discuss this with you.

Caterer and Personal chef service that covers Somerset and Dorset. This includes Bridgewater, cheddar, Yeovilton crewkerne, Templecombe, Taunton. Wellington, Wincanton, Abbotsbury, Cerne Abbas, Portland, Shaftesbury. Sherborne, Sturminster Newton, Swanage, Wareham.

02/04/201716/01/2018

Dinnington personal chef caterer

Steve James is a Dinnington personal chef, private chef, caterer, He covers Dinnington in Somerset.

Dinnington Personal chef Please click Here to visit our home page

Dinnington Personal chef can cook a variety of different meals to suit your tastes, please visit our Menus to view our current seasonal menu using fresh local produce.

We have a gallery of our work and you can also see our reviews here

To book your own event please contact us

Dinnington Personal chef

Abbas Combe Personal chef

Ox cheek with celeriac, crispy shallot, confit shallot petals, thyme roasted baby carrots, watercress, oyster mushrooms and red wine sauce

02/04/201716/01/2018

Dinder personal chef caterer

Steve James is a Dinder personal chef, private chef, caterer, He covers Dinder in Somerset.

Dinder Personal chef Please click Here to visit our home page

Dinder Personal chef can cook a variety of different meals to suit your tastes, please visit our Menus to view our current seasonal menu using fresh local produce.

We have a gallery of our work and you can also see our reviews here

To book your own event please contact us

Dinder Personal chef

Abbas Combe Personal chef

Ox cheek with celeriac, crispy shallot, confit shallot petals, thyme roasted baby carrots, watercress, oyster mushrooms and red wine sauce

28/11/201616/01/2018

Wine tasting with tasting menu

Chicken liver parfait wine tasting with tasting menu

We are still doing our wine tasting with tasting menu food pairing at the Melbury vale winery in Shaftesbury. There is still some spaces available before Christmas. So book now to avoid disappointment!

The Dorset Fine Dining & MV Wine Tasting with tasting menu Evening – Call Melbury Vale Winery now to book!

Email:info@mvwinery.co.uk
Phone: 01747 854206
Joseph 07752 865232
Clare 07730 955593

Please advise of any special dietary requirements in advance.

Melbury Vale Elegance ~ Clean and light, dry white wine , an elderflower nose with pear and honey on the palate, paired with

Whipped goats cheese sandwiched between crisp dill biscuits & blini crowned with citrus cured Salmon and crème fraiche

Veritas , Tangley ~ Dry, fresh white wine with crisp citrus aromas and flavours, paired with

Minted pea tartlet, lemon dressed rocket salad dotted with torn mozzarella

Melbury Vale Virtue ~ Dry, fruity pale rosé wine, a strawberry nose, fresh mouth-watering fruit and mineral flavours on the palate, paired with

Chicken liver parfait with crispy bacon, thyme crackers, shallot tarte tatin with watercress dressed in rapeseed oil

Melbury Vale Exuberance ~ a naturally fermented, light red wine with berry fruits on the nose, juicy blackcurrant on the palate, paired with

Spiced pulled beef brisket with crème fraiche in chicory cups & Parmesan scones with herbed cream cheese and parma ham

Melbury Vale Fusions Dawn, Dusk & Midnight ~ a trio of fortified fruity wines paired with a trio of deserts created to enhance the flavours of all

Mini apple lollipop in a caramel sauce paired with lemony Dawn

Blackberry marshmallow, blackberry coulis with luscious cherry, fig and almond Dusk

Lemon cream and raspberry pie with rich red wine, sweet berry fruits and dark chocolate on the finish Midnight

All at just £25 per person!

There are limited spaces available so please book early to secure your place.

If you would like your own evening catered for the please call Steve on 07909651557 or visit our contact page for further details.

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Valentines Day Menu 2018

Valentines Day Menu 2018

Canapes

Starters

Mains

Desserts

Petit Fours

Lizzie Somerset Blog post

Lizzie Somerset Blog

Butlers in the Buff

Butlers in the Buff

Winter menu 2017

Winter Menu 2017

Canapes

Starters

Desserts

Petit Fours

Winner Luxury Travel Guide 2018 award winning chef

First Pop Up Restaurant

Yeovil Private chef

Easter Sunday Menu

Yeovil Private chef

Dinnington personal chef caterer

Dinnington Personal chef

Dinder personal chef caterer

Dinder Personal chef

Wine tasting with tasting menu

The Dorset Fine Dining & MV Wine Tasting with tasting menu Evening – Call Melbury Vale Winery now to book!